{"id":61514,"date":"2016-12-29T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61514"},"modified":"2016-12-25T21:28:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T03:28:34","slug":"those-who-cant-possibly-learn-from-history-are-doomed-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61514","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Can&#8217;t Possibly Learn From History Are Doomed To&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Remember yellowcake?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The story was that intelligence agencies had learned Saddam Hussein was trying to buy yellowcake uranium to build nuclear weapons to use against the United States, which would have posed a threat to our national security, so we had to go to war against him to prevent him from using weapons of mass destruction on us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The entire international coalition shared the intelligence evidence as did select members of Congress including John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, both of whom supported the war based on that intelligence assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Except \u2013 no yellowcake.\u00a0 Turns out the intelligence was faulty.\u00a0 Nobody should have relied on it, much less gone to war over it.\u00a0 Bush lied, people died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Fast forward a decade.\u00a0 Portions of the intelligence community believe Russia hacked into the DNC computers but portions of it do not, the evidence is unclear, the motive is unknown, the result on the election is impossible to prove.\u00a0 But some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2016\/12\/rino-war-hawks-lindsey-graham-john-mccain-call-investigation-russia-influencing-election\/\"><span class=\"s2\">idiots in Congress<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span class=\"s1\">are ready to start a war over this? \u00a0And not just war with some two-bit tin pot dictator, war with a nuclear nation whose conventional military forces dwarf ours?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Insane.\u00a0 Literally, not sane.\u00a0 Should be locked up as a danger to themselves and all the rest of us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Knowing some of this might come from reading military history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">But you can count liberals who read military history on one hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Remember yellowcake?\u00a0 \u00a0The story was that intelligence agencies had learned Saddam Hussein was trying to buy yellowcake uranium to build nuclear weapons to use against the United States, which would have posed a threat to our national security, so we had to go to war against him to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-war-on-terror","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61520,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61514\/revisions\/61520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}